Chapter 4 Summary

This chapter is neither numbered nor starts with a quote. As the initial narrative (of the journey up the mountain made by the truck named NO TELEPHONE TO HEAVEN) resumes, narration reveals that one of the women in the back of the truck is Clare Savage, the daughter of Kitty and the grand-daughter of Miss Mattie. As she struggles to retain her balance as the truck swerves along the mountain road, she experiences several memories of the circumstances that brought her to this place.

To begin with, Clare is identified as the pale-skinned woman who Paul saw vomiting into the swimming pool during the party described in Chapter 2. At this point, narration reveals that Clare and Paul had sex in the change-house, that Clare left Paul alone almost immediately after he climaxed, and that he therefore considered her cold. Narration also describes how...